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HomeBetween the Poles – The Geoff Zeiss ArchivesAging infrastructure

Aging infrastructure

Aging infrastructure

Funding the UK National Infrastructure Plan

23 February 2012 Geoff Zeiss

At the Global Infrastructure Leadership Forum, Geoffrey Spence, who heads up Infrastructure UK, the Treasury body that oversees the UK’s infrastructure plan, gave an overview of the National Infrastructure Plan of the UK.  The fact […]

Aging infrastructure

Reducing cost of infrastructure by improving construction productivity

23 February 2012 Geoff Zeiss

At the Global Infrastructure Leadership Forum, a very interesting presentation was given by two consultants from McKinsey on the major trends in global infrastructure development and some suggestions of ways to address some of the […]

Aging infrastructure

Obama says infrastructure needs investment

26 January 2012 Geoff Zeiss

President Obama in his State of the Union speech specifically called out infrastructure as requiring significant investment.  He said that “our infrastructure used to be the best”, and mentioned countries such as Russia, China, South […]

Aging infrastructure

Distributech Utility University: Substation automation and enterprise data management

24 January 2012 Geoff Zeiss

Yesterday at Distributech Utility University John D McDonald, currently with GE, presented the perspective a very experienced electric power industry veteran, but also of a visonary and a pioneer, on substation automation and managing the […]

Aging infrastructure

Distributech Utility University: Smart grid in North America – progress in developing standards

23 January 2012 Geoff Zeiss

Yesterday at the Distributech Utility University, Erich Gunther, Ron Farquharson, Sandy Bacik, and Christian Perreault gave a very well researched, in-depth overview of the state of smart grid in North America.  Starting from the premise […]

Aging infrastructure

ASCE report on the impact of under-investment in water infrastructure in the US

29 December 2011 Geoff Zeiss

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has released a second report in the series called Failure to Act.  The first in the series dealt with transportation.   Drinking water The ASCE points out that […]

Aging infrastructure

AU: Hungarian State Railways geolocates 1.35 million objects to 5 cm precision in 14 months

7 December 2011 Geoff Zeiss

One of the major challenges facing companies that are responsible for managing the world’s infrastructure networks is data quality.  I have blogged about data quality on multiple occasions (here, here, here and here).  At Autodesk University Peter Barcza, Managing Director of […]

Aging infrastructure

£30 billion public private infrastructure fund proposed in the UK

6 December 2011 Geoff Zeiss

According to the National Infrastructure Plan 2011 HM Government plans to provide £5 billion by 2014-15 while it is hoping to planning to attract £20 billion from private investors.  The Treasury hopes two-thirds of the of the funding […]

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